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What is crowdfunding and how can it be used by the creative industry? Presentation given by Ronald Kleverlaan at the yearly Federation for Asian Cultural Promotion event in Solo, Indonesia Sep 7,...
Canadian idol finalist Jenn Kee is stepping into the spotlight and producing her first solo album. She has galvanized support from across Canada and the world by crowdfunding her record on...
This spring, Paul Cullen will release his third solo CD, "Eleven Sundays," along with his own wine label. This became a reality because of his crowdfunding campaign at RocketHub!
A few examples of famous stars who have discovered the power of crowdsourcing: Paul McCartney has partnered with Talenthouse in asking fans to submit artwork inspired by his solo albums....
A group of Penn Medicine researchers Led by Dr. Raina Merchant, an emergency physician and resuscitation expert, is launching a crowdsourcing contest this Fall that will use a smartphone app to plot the locations of Philadelphia's public automated external defibrillators (AED) which are used to restore cardiac arrest victims' hearts to their normal rhythm.
The MyHeartMap Challenge a great idea among a growing trend toward using crowdsourcing to find solutions to troubling problems in health care, are inviting people to use app to tag the photos with location information and details about the device like its color and manufacturer.
The Penn contest aims to catalog those devices and build an app using the database of AED locations which will link to a person's GPS coordinates and help them locate the nearest AED during an emergency. There's an estimated one million AEDs across the nation, hung clearly on the walls in airports and casinos, but also tucked away in restaurant closets and under the cash register in coffee shop.
NASA, the European space agency and others had been working on the problem for 10 years but Martin O’Leary British glaciologist from the University of Cambridge, found the solution in a week and a...
With crowdfunding becoming an ever more popular way to raise start up costs for businesses and projects all over the world, Crowdsourcing.org decided to take a look at ten cases where crowdfunding has been put to a benevolent use.
The rise in the number of people online — not just in the developed world, but in poorer countries too — is transforming the world into a truly “global village.” As a result, those who have internet access have more opportunities than ever. Perhaps the most fitting example to kick off our look at philanthropic instances of crowdfunding is AHumanRight.org, a non-government organization whose mission is to ensure “global access to information as a human right.” The charitable group employed the crowdfunding method in an attempt to buy the high capacity communications satellite Terrestar 1 from its bankrupt owners. AHumanRight.org planned to provide internet access to some of the poorest people on the planet, free of charge.
Crowdfunding is another fascinating phenomenon, though after much fanfare, many arts organisations remain unconvinced. What works for solo artists, larger institutions have found harder to...
The Philosophy of Record Together Is Simple. Record Together connects musicians who are looking for a great performance of any instrument for their recording. The buyer retains all rights to the...
“Space Race Blastoff opens NASA’s history and research to a wide new audience of people accustomed to using social media,”David Weaver,NASA’s associate administrator for communications,said in a...
There are those artists who see their online efforts as crucial, challenging and fun. Among them are: Imogen Heap. Since March 2011 she has been crowdsourcing songs for her new album, with...
Frozen in time for over a year now, a crowdfunding page used by Sophia Knapp to help produce her debut solo LP is full of interesting insights. Besides listing supportive friends and family, the...
The milk crate, often a go-to home storage option for college students or eclectic consumers, has been retooled with Crates, a modular storage system, recently launched by Quirky, a collaborative...
BotoPedia will initially include deep information on 50 bots, but the goal is to have a community crowdsource information on hundreds of bots. It's the right goal - group collaboration on...
iZZi Gadgets, an accessories manufacturer for Apple Inc. products, has announced that they have surpassed their funding goal on the Kickstarter crowdfunding platform. The iZZi Orbit and Solo for...
Fillim.com, a place to watch, engage, fund and upload - films, is changing the face of digital film distribution for independent filmmakers and has moved to NYC to allow for rapid worldwide...
We wrap up our look at the most unique crowdfunding campaigns of the year with a look at Amanda Palmer's highly publicized Kickstarter, which helped to put reward-based crowdfunding on the map.
Looking to hire a crowdfunding consultant for your campaign, but don't know who to trust? Rose Spinelli, founder of The CrowdFundamentals, a crowdfunding consultancy, offers newcomers some tips on how to choose a crowdfunding consultant that's right for them.
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